Six grants of £500 each are being offered to folk artists to support anything that will help their professional career development their professional career.

This could be:
– Time to develop creative projects
– Support for the production of new albums
– Instrument purchase
– Technical equipment purchase (eg portable sound equipment)
– Other training and development activities (including courses)

Applicants can be at any stage of their career but must be working as a professional artist in the folk arts (eg music, dance, storytelling). Applications will be accepted from individuals and groups of artists. The maximum award to each successful application will be £500 regardless of the number of artists involved in the application.

Grants must be used by 31 December 2021.

Applicants must complete the accompanying application form and return via email (if this is problematic, please contact us).

The closing date for completed application is Thursday 29 November 2020. All applicants will be informed of the outcome of their application before Christmas.

For queries, please contact katy [at] efdss.org or zoe [at] efdss.org

See link below for further details.